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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
James Tapper

A ‘complete mess’: fury in north London over HS2’s ‘big hole in the ground’

Stephen Newman
Stephen Newman, who was rehoused during the project, says: ‘I’ve lost my support network.’ Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer

Six years after turning the first spade at Euston station, it’s hard for local people to see HS2 as anything other than levelling down.

Hundreds of homes have been demolished. A school, a pub and other businesses have been knocked down or starved of customers. Families have been separated. Now the project has been put on hold and the builders are moving out, leaving a mile-long hole.

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